##### 20.8.1.3 Understanding JavaHelp 2 window-access limitations

In JavaHelp 2, pop-up links and jumps to secondary windows are represented as objects, placed at the start of their hotspots, rather than as conventional links. Only the objects themselves are active links. Hotspot text that you delimit with a character format assigned to an inline element in DITA XML (see §16.8.2 Defining a pop-up hotspot) looks like a hotspot in JavaHelp 2, but has no effect.

The only way to include link-specific hotspot text in DITA XML that both looks and acts like a hotspot in JavaHelp 2 is to insert in your document special PI markers that contain the hotspot text, plus (if necessary) additional special PI markers that designate font properties for hotspot text; see §20.8.1.5 Overriding window-access properties with markers.

In other words, for an active-link text hotspot, you have to use PI markers to recreate any text for the hotspot that might already be present in the document. If you can, that is; underlines, for example, are not possible. For this reason, the default window-access object DITA2Go produces is not a text object, but instead a button that immediately precedes text that is already designated as a hotspot.

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Sibling Topics:

20.8.1.1 Assigning default window parameters for JavaHelp 2

20.8.1.2 Mapping image names to graphics files

20.8.1.4 Specifying window-access object properties

20.8.1.5 Overriding window-access properties with markers

20.8.1.6 Designing your own window-access marker names